Fascinating Fiction Characters

Ten Ways To Use Astrology To Write Fascinating Characters

You've got a great plot all lined up. You're excited about your story. You're characters are going on a wonderful adventure. Everything is falling into place except for one essential thing required for great fiction: Fascinating Characters. Or you always start your story off with characters first. But just who are these characters? How do I find Fascinating Characters, someone I can write a great story, novel, poem or song about? I started studying astrology at age thirteen. And I've discovered ten ways non-astrologers can create Fascinating Characters that leap off the page.

You Don't Have To Be An Astrologer

If you can open a used astrology Sun Sign or Key Word Book, you can
structure characters with depth and richness to keep your readers
turning the page. In characterization, you looking for one dominate
trait and two minor traits. You reveal more and more how this one
dominate trait manifest itself over and over again in different ways.
You reveal the minor traits as supplemental information to round out
her character and make her more interesting.

Biographical Character Sheet

This is your basic characterization requirement sheet. Don't worry to
much about this right now. Simply read over it quickly to digest.
1. What does your fascinating character want? (Short and Long Term Goals)
2. What does your fascinating character need? (What's driving them internally? To be better than Dad? To relate to everyone?
3. How does your fascinating character go about doing things? (Fast, slow, analytically, gets outside support, conservative)
4. How does your fascinating character think things through? (Take
surface guess, tune into feelings, think about fame or attention
getting, how to help others)

This character sheet doesn't have to be filled out completely. Even if
you do, only about 5 to 10% of this information will make it into your
story on the conscious level. For example the Aries Boss character in
your story may be an CEO; she showed early skill leading her Girl Scout
Troop. The other 90 to 95% of characterization information makes it
into your story subconsciously. Simply because you know she collected
teddy bears in her youth doesn't mean you have to say it, but as a
writer you will make her a CEO with a caring touch somewhere in her
nature and activities. Think the iceberg theory. No one tells
everyone they meet everything they ever did in life, and yet all those
things, some even forgotten make up your personality and outward
expression!

Peak success in Life:
Aries: Did something they out to accomplish.
Pisces. Did something benefiting the community.

Injury/sickness:

Speaking Style:

Moved from Birth: __________________________________________________________Time of Story: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Almanac Events: 1._________________________________________________________ _ 2._________________________________________________________________________3._________________________________________________________________________ 4._________________________________________________________________________ What does she want?_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________What/who is getting in her way?_________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________Why does she want it?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Dominant Trait:

Interview If you gave your character an interview what would they say?:_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Monologue. If you heard them stand up and give a private soap box speech.:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Last five entries/things into checkbook/purse/wallet or briefcase:1. ___________________________________________________________________2. ____________________________________________________________________3. ____________________________________________________________________4. ____________________________________________________________________5. ____________________________________________________________________

Ten items in their shopping cart:1. 6.2. 7.3. 8.4. 9.5. 10.3.

Five or more things in their purses, briefcase or school locker:1. __________________________________________________________________2. __________________________________________________________________3. __________________________________________________________________4. __________________________________________________________________5. __________________________________________________________________

Continuum Biographical Astrology Method

Fascinating Characters depend operate on a range or continuum of
actions or beliefs. They may fall anywhere along this continuum.
Often you will find fascinating characters' great strength become their
greatest weakness. This dynamic forces character growth or in order to
prevent self-destruction. In the Movie Wall Street and in the story
Oedipus Rex, the main character's strength destroys him in the end.
Astrology Sun Sign and Key Word books make great use of this Continuum
Biographical Dynamic.

Example:

Where you see (+) positive qualities, (-) negative qualities (n)
neutral qualities these apply for both styles of that character. This
information is/can be used on the continuum dominant trait chart
below. Example for an Aries or Pisces Character:

2. WHAT DOES CHARACTER B’S ACCEPTING HAVE TO DO WITH THEIR RELATIONSHIP?

3. HOW DOES CHARACTER A’S DOING AND CHARACTER B’S ACCEPTING 1) CONFLICT-CLASH 2) ALIGN-MESH 3) MODIFY-CHANGE
THEIR RELATIONSHIP?

4. HOW CAN I CREATE A PARAGRAPH SKETCH DESCRIBING SETTING, CHARACTERS FOR THIS SCENE?

EXAMPLE 2:
1. WHAT DOES CHARACTER A’S IMPULSIVENESS HAVE TO DO WITH THEIR RELATIONSHIP?

2. WHAT DOES CHARACTER B’S ESCAPIST TENDENCY HAVE TO DO WITH THEIR RELATIONSHIP?

3. HOW DOES CHARACTER A’S IMPULSIVENESS AND CHARACTER B’S ESCAPIST TENDENCY 1) CONFLICT-CLASH 2) ALIGN-MESH 3) MODIFY-CHANGE
THEIR RELATIONSHIP?

4. HOW CAN I CREATE A PARAGRAPH SKETCH DESCRIBING SETTING, CHARACTERS FOR THIS SCENE?

Planet Sign or House Biographical Astrology Method

On my writing website http://cupiderosbooks.com I have Writing Prompts.

CBWP 2009 P3--#10-07.5.09

Plotting using Characterization 1.

I'll make it simple.
You can look at chocolate.
You can eat chocolate.
Which would you rather do?

The external workings of a person, what clothes they have on, their
style of clothes, hair length, height, weight are all how Chocolate
looks. THAT'S LOOKING AT CHOCOLATE!

The internal workings of a person. Their motivation their unconscious
needs. Their quirky ways of doing things, a neat freak, the slob, the
first one thing done then another thing person are their methods. How
they come to conclusions about a project or person or their life
philosophy how they think or evaluate. The long range goals and
desires, their conscious drive. THAT'S TASTING CHOCOLATE!

In the end, you won't remember how Chocolate looked. You'll remember how Chocolate actually taste.

Astrology been around for over 6,000 years. Longer probably.
Astrology deals in looking at chocolate. Mostly though astrology's
fame comes from tasting chocolate!

You have six people on a desert island. They crashed on a plane ride. Think Gillian Island or Lost.
These people all came into being, born on this earth, at different
years. Jupiter takes a year to move through one sign. Jupiter takes
12.2 years to complete one chart cycle. Jupiter shows the choices in a
person's belief system. Their outward religion. How they like to
travel and deal with foreigners.

Person 1: Born while Jupiter moved through Pisces. He says, "I believe in oneness of all things. We're hear for a purpose."

Person 2: Born while Jupiter moved through Aries sees things differently. She says, "I believe in myself. Number 1, Uno."

Person 3: Born while Jupiter moved through Gemini says, "You can all
believe what you want, but we need to find some way to spread the word
we're lost on this island. Only our minds and logic will get us off
this island."

Person 4: Born while Jupiter moved through Capricorn says, "I believe
in tradition. It's tradition to elect a leader. Someone organized and
practical." Person 4 points to his/her chest, "That'd be me!"

Person 5: Born while Jupiter moved through Aquarius says, "I believe in
starting new tradition. The only thing staying the same is lost out
there back in civilization."

Person 6: Born while Jupiter moved through Libra says, "I believe in
justice and fair play. We're lost on this island; so we might as well
make peace and get along."

First ACT/Scene: Create an event: six people are lost on a deserted
island. That part is done for you. Now you describe the island a bit,
briefly. Introduce us to the six characters. Make their belief
systems the driving force of their characterizations.

Second ACT/Scene: Person 2 discovers a computer in a box. Apparently, it fell out of the plane with a parachute attached.

Third ACT/Scene: Person 4 makes a power play and wants to take over the
group. Three people disagree with him and the one group splits off
into two groups of three. The second splinter group leaves for another
part of the island.

Fourth ACT/Scene: A person in the second group dies. The second
splinter group (now only 2 in number) believes Person 4 caused this
event. They plan revenge.

Fifth ACT/Scene is how the situation was actually resolved.

Key Word Astrology Biographical Method

Plotting using Characterization 2.

I'll make it simple.
You can look at chocolate.
You can eat chocolate.
Which would you rather do?
The external workings of a person, what clothes they have on, their
style of clothes, hair length, height, weight are all how Chocolate
looks. THAT'S LOOKING AT CHOCOLATE!
The internal workings of a person. Their motivation their unconscious
needs. Their quirky ways of doing things, a neat freak, the slob, the
first one thing done then another thing person are their methods. How
they come to conclusions about a project or person or their life
philosophy how they think or evaluate. The long range goals and
desires, their conscious drive. THAT'S TASTING CHOCOLATE!
In the end, you won't remember how Chocolate looked. You'll remember how Chocolate actually taste.
Characterization is all about how characters interact with one
another. As in the example above, you are forced to ask yourself how
Person 1's belief interacts, agrees, conflicts, supports by allowing
things to go by with Person 2's or Person 3's or Person 4's or Person
5's or Person 6's beliefs.

That's characterization's entire cause.

1) FIXED SUN SIGNS, MUTUAL SUN SIGNS, CARDINAL SUN SIGNSIn Astrology, you have fixed signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. These people are hard to move once they decide on a course of action.

Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces are mutable signs. These people love to shift about and change their position because of some updated information.

So how do the Taurus character in a story and the Capricorn in a story interact:When the Taurus Character decides she wants a home and children the man Capricorn says not yet. I have to build my Marketing Firm.

The Sagittarius woman wants to travel around the world, but the Leo man says, only if we can travel to the theater's of the world.

The Cancer man wants to start a family, but his Gemini girlfriend doesn't have time as she is a world traveling journalist.

Life is sad when people cannot agree or agree to disagree or go their separate ways. But that's why these character are in your novel, story or poem because something in the world needs exploring.

Generic set up would be:Character A's need/goal/way of thinking/doing things interacts how

1) Agree 2) Conflict/disagrees or 3) Supports by allowing things to go by

Character B's need/goal/way of thinking/doing things

You can reverse the order of characters too.

2) You could use astrology key words for any skill, talent, point of view or belief about life!

Character A has a skill/talent/point of view or belief about life.Character B has a skill/talent/point of view or belief about life.

The questions is....

How does Character A's skill/talent/point of view or belief about life--

1) Agree 2) Conflict/disagrees or 3) Supports by allowing things to go by

With Character B's skill/talent/point of view or belief about life.

[Allowing things or supporting things by allowing things is like indulging the other person.]

Neptune is known as the planet of fantasies, illusions, enlightenment, revelation, mystery, The Goddesses and Gods.Mars is known as the planet of aggression, fighting for survival, first comes first.Pluto is known as the planet of transformation, destruction, death and intense encounters.Venus is known as the planet of money earned, resources, fashion, beauty, tangible things.

Whatever the case may be, characters are never in the story unless they help reflect another character or the issue or theme or plot event in the screenplay, story or poem. I'm sorry but that your only reason to have any character in fiction.

Could be, Character A's bad childhood (Pluto) supports by allowing for Character E's view children (Uranus) are stupid.Perhaps, Character A's bad childhood (Pluto) supports by allowing Character F's view life is atheistic/senseless (Uranus).It doesn't mean Character E or F agree with Character A; they just rather let things be/let the Character A have their anger; their indulgent rant against the world.

For true support, Character A would go to Character G who agrees bad childhoods should not happen.Or Character A finds a true friend in Character H who cast shame on those who made Character A's childhood bad.

Astrological Chart Per Character Method

The Astrological Chart Per Character Method is the most promising and complex method.

Calculate a fictional chart for a Main Character person and order
an astrological report for this person Cost about $19.95 for a report.

Do the same thing for your second Main Character person. Cost about $19.95.

Take information from the reports Sun Signs, Moon Signs, Planet in
Signs and Houses, and Planetary Aspects to create WANTS, NEEDS, WAYS OF
DOING, WAYS OF THINKING for your fascinating characters.

For example here are blurbs from a sample chart character:

Sun in the 9th House
This position of the Sun emphasizes a wide range of interests and
activities. The ninth house represents religion, philosophy, and long
journeys. Providing your chart does not indicate a tendency towards
dogma, you view life as a type of journey. It may be a pilgrimage in
which one examines a variety of esoteric directions, philosophies and
religions, without being tied to a prescribed doctrine. You will
probably travel and enjoy intense literature that deals with the
philosophical exploration of the meaning of life. You like to get away
from home, meet new people, and to travel far-even abroad. Should you
opt for it, you can be successful with further education.

You should try to balance your life and avoid becoming too preoccupied
with complicated interactions and theories. You may have broad ranging
solutions for the ills of society but be unable to find the answers to
personal dilemmas. You probably enjoy an occupation that provides the
opportunity to cultivate interaction with large groups. One of your
many occupations could be working at a travel agency, doing market
research or training work. Your inventiveness and enthusiasm enable you
to motivate others. If the Sun receives challenging planetary aspects
here, you may have a self-centered view of life and feel defeated by
circumstance. A well-aspected Sun suggests an open mind willing to
consider all points of view. At a higher level, there will be a
creative expression with spiritual teaching.

All ready you have a character's career, philosophy or religious
beliefs, some hobbies they like. Possible dark side of being
self-centered and feeling defeated by circumstances!

Second example from same sample chart character:

N. Node in the 1st House
At times, you just want to be in a relationship, whether or not it's
good for you, only to realize that the other person is so dependent on
you that you can't do your own thing; we should have learned how to do
that back in the 60's! When you finally know who you are as an
individual, you'll be ready for a healthy and substantial relationship.
This may not happen until after the Saturn return, at age 29, so try to
be patient!

A lot of psychological drama here.

Third example from same sample chart character:

Mars in Leo in Trine with Uranus in Pisces
You are well liked, especially because of your originality and plethora
of ideas. You are a very willful person which makes it possible for you
to lead your life in an energetic way. You are able to recognize the
potential of reusable items, and if your job deals with organizing the
old work procedure more efficiently, you will stand at the top. To
satisfy your career ambition you are able to make use of methods marked
by incredible originality. If other aspects support it, you will likely
gain a management position.

Perhaps a Maverick CEO or Entertainer!

The question is:
Do you want to spend $40 on an experimental story, novel, poem or song! Probably not.

Although I must tell you, you could get several characterization from
even a single astrological computer report. I've good news for you.

20+Characters For Fiction

I've made it easy to collect exciting characterization for Fictional
Characters. For $29.95 you get over twenty individual charts.
On my website, Cupiderosbooiks.com
http://cupiderosbooks.com/20Charactersforfiction.html I sell a bundle
over 20 unique astrological report charts all ready to use.

Where To Find Astrology Books Cheap
If you want to gather astrological information from used astrology
books my website http://www.careysastrology.net/AstroBooks.html list
good key word books to purchase.

There you have it. Ten Ways To Use Astrology To Write Fascinating
Characters. You've got a great plot all lined up. You're excited
about your story. You're characters are going on a wonderful
adventure. Everything is falling into place and ...

You know how to add the missing essential ingredient required for great
fiction: Fascinating Characters. Or now you know a sure way to always
start your story off with Fascinating Characters. Either way, you know
who are these characters? What they WANT, NEED, HOW THEY DO THINGS AND
HOW THEY THINK. You can focus on writing the next great story, novel,
poem or song with characters that leap off the page and into the
reader's heart.

Author Bio

Cupideros is the owner of a creative writing website,
http://www.cupiderosbooks.com and has used these methods in his fiction writing and has a Free Online Fiction Writing Course and Free
Online Poetry Writing Course. He is the owner of
http://www.careysastrology.net where he sells astrology reports, future
transits, friends and lover reports. If you want to order
20+Characters for Fiction, you'll find this one
http://cupiderosbooks.com/20Charactersforfiction.html

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